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Friday morning, after I’d finished at St. Peter’s, I had some time to kill before meeting David at 11 in front of S. Maria di Trestavere. So, over to the Center for a bit. I disembarked in front of the Chiesa Nuova, <\/a>which is the church of S. Philip Neri. <\/a>
\nIt was about 9 o’clock, and drizzling, a foretaste of the rest of the day during which we would do battle with occasiona blasts of rain and even hail. I noted a bakery across the road for a later visit.
\nThe church, cavernous and thick with paintings and decoration, was practically empty. As my eyes grew accustomed to the half-light and I searched for the typical wall-chart explaining the interior, a voice echoed through the space. I checked the schedule – it must be Mass.
\nAnd it was. Up to the left, at a side chapel, which turned out to be the resting place of St. Philip’s body. One priest, one congregant with backpack and umbrella and very much the air of a pilgrim, I decided as I observed him walking around later, and then me.
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\"Mass<\/a>
Mass at Chiesa Nuova, early morning. In front of St. Philip Neri's body.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThe priest finished proclaming the Gospel, then turned quickly to begin the Liturgy of the Eucharist.\u00a0 There was so much going on in the world, so much suffering and weeping\u00a0that was not absent from his place,\u00a0but was\u00a0instead quietly confronted and humbly offered up, \u00a0the mystery of a small, yet persistent light penetrating that darkness, borne in a Body, born in the bodies of those who embrace, suffer and bear the light of the Risen One.
\nCorpo di Cristo. <\/em>
\nAnd we walked back out into the rain, the pilgrim and I, he going one way,\u00a0 another, but both, I sensed, journeying in the same direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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